As part of the Festival of British Archaeology, Archaeology here at Southampton will be hosting a day of hands-on activities and demonstrations on Saturday 23rd July.

We are planning lots for everyone to do, take part in and/or watch, including:

• Prehistoric butchery
• Medieval shipwrighting using our axe collection
• Cave art
• Human bones
• Prehistoric metallurgy demonstration
• Flint knapping and axe making
• Mini-excavation
• Build-a-burial
• Geophysics
• Human Origins and a chance to meet the monkey men!
• Minecraft
• Maritime archaeology

Events will be running from 10am to 4pm at Avenue Campus (just off Highfield Road, SO17 1BF – plenty of parking available onsite).

Free entry!

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You are welcome to attend a FREE research seminar at University of Southampton.

Venue: Lecture Theatre A (Room 1133), Building 65, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Date: Wednesday February 10th
Time: 18:00

Professor Simon Keay, Dr Nicolas Carayon and Hembo Pagi (Rome’s Mediterranean Ports project, University of Southampton) will be discussing ‘An interdisciplinary database about Roman ports’.

The ERC Advanced Grant funded Rome’s Mediterranean Ports Portuslimen project addresses specific questions relating to the capacities of, and inter-connections between, a range of over 30 selected ports in the east and west Mediterranean. It does so in order to allow us to better understand their role in promoting the trade and commerce across the Roman Mediterranean during the imperial era.

In order to undertake systematic comparisons between these sites, the project has developed a large data management system. This was developed and tested using archaeological collections and combines different kinds of port-specific archaeological, geo-archaeological, epigraphic and historical data so that they can be manipulated within a GIS context. This is making it possible for the project to address specific research questions relating to the definition of ports and their associated landscapes. Our recent ongoing work on the ports at Narbonne in France and Elaia in Turkey is used to demonstrate how this works in practice.

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Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds educator, Dr Julian Whitewright, will be giving a talk on maritime archaeology at Southampton Cafe Scientifique:

Introduction to ship archaeology, metallurgical analysis of copper/brass material for dating, dendrochronology, conservation and so on

Date: Monday 8th February 2016
Time: 19:00 for talk 19:30 to 21:00.
Venue: Southwestern Arms (upstairs room) , 36 Adelaide Rd, St Denys, Southampton, SO17 2HW
Cost: Entry by a purchase at the bar or by donation in the tin, for the venue facilities.

There will be plenty of time for questions and answers, so please feel free to come along with your queries.

This event is relatively informal, so it will not be possible for it to be live-streamed.

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Key Note Abstract: “Beyond the Sea: people, practice and priorities in maritime archaeology”
If Rip Van Winkle was an archaeologist and slept for a mere five years, so rapid has the pace of change in the discipline been recently, he would awake to a bewilderment of new ideas, dramatic developments in technology, methodology, publication formats, and of course interminable updates in computer software and ever more rapid obsolescence of the computers on which it is used. In short, he’d be woefully out of date on all fronts. Arguably, things are even more dynamic in maritime archaeology.
This paper looks at the pace of change as manifested in the subject’s demographic, the breadth of its current concerns and the range of theory and technology available to address them. On these bases the future looks bright but, as well as potentials, there remain some major challenges that demand new strategies and greater coherence in international heritage management and research frameworks.

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View of the Brede valley, taken from the Winchelsea-hill. © Thomas Dhoop

On the 26th of April 2015, the Winchelsea Archaeological Society (WAS) and members of the archaeology department of the University of Southampton are holding a one-day conference titled ‘Medieval Ports, Ships and Sailors‘. The central theme of the day will be the changing relationships between medieval cargo ships, waterfront infrastructure and the built-up town environment.

Program:

09:00     Registration and coffee

10:00     Welcome by the Winchelsea Archaeological Society
10:10     Prof. David Hinton (University of Southampton) – Port Development in Post-Roman England
10:30     Thomas Dhoop (University of Southampton)  – The Medieval Harbour of Winchelsea: Questions and Preliminary Findings
10:50     Questions

11:00     Guided tour of the town and cellars
12:00     Lunch (not provided)

13:00     Dr. Julian Whitewright (University of Southampton) – Sailors and Navigators on the English Channel
13:20     Dr. Joe Flatman (English Heritage) – Title TBC
13:40     Dr. Fraser Sturt (University of Southampton) – The Sea in Medieval Seafaring, an Environmental Study
14:00     Questions

14:15     Coffee

14:30     Prof. Jonathan Adams (University of Southampton) – From Iberia and Gascony to the British Isles: The medieval shipwrecks in St Peter Port, Guernsey
15:15     Panel discussion

15:45     End of conference

Date: Sunday 26^th April 2015
Venue: New Hall in Winchelsea, East Sussex, UK (Post Code: TN36 4EA)
Fees: £10 students, £20 working professionals, to be paid on the day of the conference
Registration: Please use the Contact form to email me.

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16-18 October 2015

Avenue Campus, University of Southampton

The Royal Anthropological Institute’s annual conference is open to everyone with an interest in archaeology – and this year the theme is ‘Ships and Shorelines: Maritime Archaeology for the 21st Century’.

Our own Prof Jon Adams will be delivering the keynote address on Friday and the following two days will see presentations from experts discussing topics as diverse as submerged prehistoric archaeology, World War I maritime losses and the Mary Rose.

There are full details of the packed line-up of speakers (including several of the Shipwrecks Team) on the Royal Archaeological Institute’s website here, along with details of how you can book and attend the conference.

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10/9

Dr. Fraser Sturt – Archaeology Underwater? Recent fieldwork on the Pleistocene Landscape

10/16

Scott Tucker (PhD Student) – St. Mary’s River Archaeological Project: 2012 fieldwork season results: Click here to view this talk.

Thomas Dhoop (MA/MSc Student) – Archaeology of Cogs in the Flanders Harbour and public engagement

Mike Stratigos (MA/MSc Student) – Crannogs in Loch Kinord, Aberdeenshire

10/23 

Professor Jon Adams – Historic Period Shipwreck Investigations in Sweden

10/30

Clara Fuquen (PhD Student) – Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork at Choco Region, Colombia

We will update this schedule as it develops further, with at least two more dates planned.

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